Curriculum Planning and Assessment

PORTFOLIO EVIDENCE LIST

Standard I

Curriculum Planning and Assessment

• Designs units of instruction with measurable outcomes and challenging tasks requiring higher-order thinking skills that enable students to learn the knowledge and skills defined in state standards/local curricula.

• Develops well-structured lessons with challenging, measurable objectives and appropriate student engagement strategies, pacing, sequence, activities, materials, resources, technologies, and grouping.

• Designs and administers a variety of informal and formal methods and assessments, including common interim assessments, to measure each student’s learning, growth, and progress toward achieving state/local standards

• Organizes and analyzes results from a variety of assessments to determine progress toward intended outcomes and uses these findings to adjust practice and identify and/or implement appropriatedifferentiated interventions and enhancements for students.

• Based on assessment results, provides descriptive feedback and engages students and families in constructive conversation that focuses on how students can improve their performance.

Highlighted indicators are part of the 6 Essential Elements required by CAP

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Standard II

Teaching All Students

• Uses appropriate practices, including tiered instruction and scaffolds, to accommodate differences in learning styles, needs, interests, and levels of readiness, including those of students with disabilities and English learners.

• Uses rituals, routines, and appropriate responses that create and maintain a safe physical and intellectual environment where students take academic risks and most behaviors that interfere with learning are prevented.

• Anticipates and responds appropriately to conflicts or misunderstandings arising from differences in backgrounds, languages,and identities.

• Clearly communicates and consistently enforces specific standards or student work, effort, and behavior so that most students are able to describe them and take ownership of meeting them. Is able to model this element.

• Effectively models and reinforces ways that students can master challenging material through effective effort, rather than having to depend on innate ability.

Highlighted indicators are part of the 6 Essential Element required by CAP

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Standard III

Family and Community Engagement

• Uses a variety of strategies to support every family to participate actively and appropriately in the classroom and school community

• Consistently provides parents with clear, user-friendly expectations for student learning and behavior.

• Regularly uses two-way communication with families about student performance and learning and responds promptly and carefully to communications from families.

Highlighted indicators are part of the 6 Essential Elements required by CAP

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Standard IV

Professional Culture

• Regularly reflects on the effectiveness of lessons, units, and interactions with students, both individually and with colleagues, and uses insights gained to improve practice and student learning.

• Consistently seeks out and applies, when appropriate, ideas for improving practice from supervisors, colleagues, professional development activities, and other resources to gain expertise and/or assume different instruction and leadership responsibilities

• Consistently and effectively collaborates with colleagues in such work as developing standards-based units, examining student work, analyzing student performance, and planning appropriate intervention.

Highlighted indicators are part of the 6 Essential Elements required by CAP

Meets Standard___Exceeds Standard___

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Signatures and dates:

Supervising Practitioner (Mentor)______

Program Supervisor (IC)______

Teacher______

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